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Cloudera Hadoop strategy and usage notes 25 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
When we scheduled a call to talk about Sentry, Cloudera’s Charles Zedlewski and I found time to discuss other stuff as well. One interesting part of our discussion was around the processing “framework...
Cloudera Sentry and other security subjects 25 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
I chatted with Charles Zedlewski of Cloudera on Thursday about security — especially Cloudera’s new offering Sentry — and other Hadoop subjects. Sentry is: Developed by Cloudera. An Apache incubato...
Hortonworks business notes 24 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
Hortonworks did a business-oriented round of outreach, talking with at least Derrick Harris and me. Notes from my call — for which Rob Bearden* didn’t bother showing up — include, in no particular or...
Online booksellers and their “eventually correct” data 24 Aug 2013 | 01:13 pm
I’ve become involved in the world of online book publishing through Linda Barlow, who among other credentials: Has been a best-selling, award-winning novelist. Is superbly connected in the writing w...
Why privacy laws should be based on data use, not data possession 19 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
For years I’ve argued three points about privacy intrusions and surveillance: Privacy intrusions are a huge threat to liberty. Since the Snowden revelations started last June, this view has become mo...
Aerospike 3 18 Aug 2013 | 08:10 am
My clients at Aerospike are coming out with their Version 3, and as several of my clients do, have encouraged me to front-run what otherwise would be the Monday embargo. I encourage such behavior wit...
The two sides of BI 14 Aug 2013 | 10:29 am
As is the case for most important categories of technology, discussions of BI can get confused. I’ve remarked in the past that there are numerous kinds of BI, and that the very origin of the term “bus...
Things I keep needing to say 12 Aug 2013 | 11:45 am
Some subjects just keep coming up. And so I keep saying things like: Most generalizations about “Big Data” are false. “Big Data” is a horrific catch-all term, with many different meanings. Most gene...
Curt Monash on video 8 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
I made a remarkably rumpled video appearance yesterday with SiliconAngle honchos John Furrier and Dave Vellante. (Excuses include <3 hours sleep, and then a scrambling reaction to a schedule change.) ...
Hortonworks, Hadoop, Stinger and Hive 7 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
I chatted yesterday with the Hortonworks gang. The main subject was Hortonworks’ approach to SQL-on-Hadoop — commonly called Stinger — but at my request we cycled through a bunch of other topics as w...
